Robot DevKit 0.3.0

Here comes the v0.3.0 release of Intel® Robot Development Kit . Comparing to v0.2.0, CNN based visual grasp detection accelerated by OpenVINO™ and two performance measurement tools are added:

• Visual Manipulation
  1. ros2_grasp_library accelerated by OpenVINO™, CNN based grasp planning and detection for industrial robot visual manipulation.
  2. Unified native APIs for different robot arm and gripper drivers.
  3. Sample applications for key manipulation usages: Draw “X”, Fixed pick and place, Random pick and place, Recognized pick and place.
• Performance Tools
  1. A profiling tool rtmonitor built to monitor and capture real time performance metrics of ROS2 C++ Application.
  2. ROS2 topics performance measurement tool rdk_perf to show result in rqt at run time.
     Enjoy, and any issues please report to github .

Robot DevKit 0.2.0

Release Notes

Here comes the v0.2.0 release of Intel® Robot Development Kit. This version fully supports ROS2 Dashing and Turtlebot3 chassis, including D400 serials and T265 RealSense™ cameras, OpenVINO™ for neural network inference with CPU, GPU and VPU acceleration, Object Analytics for 2D tracking and 3D localization, etc. Compared with v0.1, new features are:

• integrate ros2_grasp_library, OpenVINO™ based grasp detection for industrial robot visual manipulation
• upgrade ros2_intel_realsense and support D435i depth and T265 tracking cameras
• Improved RealSense™ based SLAM and navigation with D435 and T265 cameras
• upgrade ros2 navigation with life cycle management and closed loop spinning recovery behavior
• support configuration for easy Robot Devkit customization
• support logging for warn/error/info messages
• support tar ball binary for remote target deployment

Robot DevKit 0.1.1

Release Notes

New features:

• Supported ROS2 dashing release
• DevKit installer robustness and performance improvement, especially for timeout issue and unattended installation
• Upgraded librealsense from 2.17.0 to latest one (now is 2.24.0)
• Upgraded OpenVINO from 2018_R5 to 2019_R1 to support yolov2 model and result filtering for object detection

Known Issues:

• TurtleBot3 for dashing is still ongoing, so hardware related features are not actually verified (SLAM, Navigate with TurtleBot3)
• Realsense for SLAM and Navigation is not verified for the same reason
• Manually download ROS2 public key for installation, workaround for "public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F42ED6FBAB17C654" (ros2/ros2#742)